1903 - 2022
Kane Tanaka (田中 カ子, Tanaka Kane, née Ōta (太田); 2 January 1903 – 19 April 2022) was a Japanese supercentenarian who, until her death at the age of 119 years and 107 days, was the world's oldest verified living person following the death of Chiyo Miyako on 22 July 2018. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Kane Tanaka has received more than 4,656,844 page views. Her biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Kane Tanaka is the 355th most popular religious figure (up from 584th in 2019), the 32nd most popular biography from Japan (up from 77th in 2019) and the most popular Japanese Religious Figure.
Kane Tanaka is most famous for being the first Japanese wrestler to hold the prestigious IWGP Heavyweight Championship.
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Among religious figures, Kane Tanaka ranks 355 out of 2,238. Before her are Simeon Stylites, Pope Innocent V, Dionysius the Areopagite, Pope Clement III, Thích Nhất Hạnh, and Pope Nicholas III. After her are Pope Marcellus I, Pope Benedict III, Pope Sergius IV, Pope Marinus II, Pope Celestine IV, and Geli Raubal.
389 - 459
HPI: 69.55
Rank: 349
1225 - 1276
HPI: 69.55
Rank: 350
100 - 100
HPI: 69.54
Rank: 351
1130 - 1191
HPI: 69.52
Rank: 352
1926 - 2022
HPI: 69.52
Rank: 353
1215 - 1280
HPI: 69.50
Rank: 354
1903 - 2022
HPI: 69.48
Rank: 355
255 - 309
HPI: 69.46
Rank: 356
810 - 858
HPI: 69.42
Rank: 357
970 - 1012
HPI: 69.42
Rank: 358
932 - 946
HPI: 69.41
Rank: 359
1200 - 1241
HPI: 69.40
Rank: 360
1908 - 1931
HPI: 69.35
Rank: 361
Among people born in 1903, Kane Tanaka ranks 12. Before her are Olav V of Norway, Georges Simenon, Ernst Kaltenbrunner, John Dillinger, Vladimir Horowitz, and Mark Rothko. After her are Habib Bourguiba, Fernandel, Galeazzo Ciano, Marguerite Yourcenar, Rudolf Abel, and Andrey Kolmogorov. Among people deceased in 2022, Kane Tanaka ranks 14. Before her are Vangelis, Sidney Poitier, Monica Vitti, Leonid Kravchuk, Francisco Gento, and Thích Nhất Hạnh. After her are Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Irene Papas, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Madeleine Albright, Vivienne Westwood, and Ayman al-Zawahiri.
1903 - 1991
HPI: 73.07
Rank: 6
1903 - 1989
HPI: 72.92
Rank: 7
1903 - 1946
HPI: 72.21
Rank: 8
1903 - 1934
HPI: 70.00
Rank: 9
1903 - 1989
HPI: 69.74
Rank: 10
1903 - 1970
HPI: 69.55
Rank: 11
1903 - 2022
HPI: 69.48
Rank: 12
1903 - 2000
HPI: 69.02
Rank: 13
1903 - 1971
HPI: 68.98
Rank: 14
1903 - 1944
HPI: 68.44
Rank: 15
1903 - 1987
HPI: 68.40
Rank: 16
1903 - 1971
HPI: 67.52
Rank: 17
1903 - 1987
HPI: 67.41
Rank: 18
1943 - 2022
HPI: 72.11
Rank: 8
1927 - 2022
HPI: 71.81
Rank: 9
1931 - 2022
HPI: 71.60
Rank: 10
1934 - 2022
HPI: 71.34
Rank: 11
1933 - 2022
HPI: 70.07
Rank: 12
1926 - 2022
HPI: 69.52
Rank: 13
1903 - 2022
HPI: 69.48
Rank: 14
1948 - 2022
HPI: 69.45
Rank: 15
1929 - 2022
HPI: 69.23
Rank: 16
1930 - 2022
HPI: 68.73
Rank: 17
1937 - 2022
HPI: 67.68
Rank: 18
1941 - 2022
HPI: 67.35
Rank: 19
1951 - 2022
HPI: 67.34
Rank: 20
Among people born in Japan, Kane Tanaka ranks 32 out of 6,048. Before her are Hiroo Onoda (1922), Hattori Hanzō (1542), Yayoi Kusama (1929), Osamu Tezuka (1928), Lee Myung-bak (1941), and Ryūnosuke Akutagawa (1892). After her are Gichin Funakoshi (1868), Sadako Sasaki (1943), Himiko (175), Emperor Kōmei (1831), Tadao Ando (1941), and Morihei Ueshiba (1883).
1922 - 2014
HPI: 70.97
Rank: 26
1542 - 1597
HPI: 70.79
Rank: 27
1929 - Present
HPI: 70.32
Rank: 28
1928 - 1989
HPI: 69.96
Rank: 29
1941 - Present
HPI: 69.86
Rank: 30
1892 - 1927
HPI: 69.54
Rank: 31
1903 - 2022
HPI: 69.48
Rank: 32
1868 - 1957
HPI: 69.40
Rank: 33
1943 - 1955
HPI: 69.39
Rank: 34
175 - 248
HPI: 69.05
Rank: 35
1831 - 1867
HPI: 69.02
Rank: 36
1941 - Present
HPI: 68.96
Rank: 37
1883 - 1969
HPI: 68.74
Rank: 38
Among religious figures born in Japan, Kane Tanaka ranks 1. After her are Nichiren (1222), Dōgen (1200), Benkei (1155), Abe no Seimei (921), Empress Meishō (1624), Paulo Miki (1564), Mikao Usui (1865), Yamamoto Tsunetomo (1659), Sen no Rikyū (1522), Ikkyū (1394), and Dom Justo Takayama (1552).
1903 - 2022
HPI: 69.48
Rank: 1
1222 - 1282
HPI: 64.96
Rank: 2
1200 - 1253
HPI: 64.62
Rank: 3
1155 - 1189
HPI: 64.24
Rank: 4
921 - 1005
HPI: 63.74
Rank: 5
1624 - 1696
HPI: 63.36
Rank: 6
1564 - 1597
HPI: 63.16
Rank: 7
1865 - 1926
HPI: 61.50
Rank: 8
1659 - 1719
HPI: 61.00
Rank: 9
1522 - 1591
HPI: 60.95
Rank: 10
1394 - 1481
HPI: 57.98
Rank: 11
1552 - 1615
HPI: 57.54
Rank: 12